Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…
What you see via the UI isn’t “all that exists”. Unlike Reddit, where everything is a black box, there are a lot more eyeballs who can see “under the hood”. Any instance admin, proper or rogue, gets a ton of information that users won’t normally see. The attached example demonstrates that while users will only see upvote/downvote tallies, admins can see who actually performed those actions.
Edit: To clarify, not just YOUR instance admin gets this info. This is ANY instance admin across the Fediverse.
Isn’t that kind of the point? You don’t get very far hiding in a social setting. You’re on a public website talking to other people. Your posts should be public, comments, etc. At least people should treat all websites or apps they didn’t develop personally like they’re public. I mean you don’t really have a right to privacy in public.
And I’m not trying to say this with some malicious tone or anything but it’s just my view on it.
Posts and comments is one thing… It’s inherently public. But I think being able to see up and down vote publically is a tough pill. If you don’t realize your votes can be seen you risk your vote being held against you. If you do know it disincentivizes you to use the vote system to protect yourself from something that should be rather benign.
At least you know the instance host isn’t selling your data right? The advertisers already have it 🤪
I was kind of joking, but now that I think about it isn’t that better? The problem isn’t really advertisers having your data, it’s companies doing skeezy things to be able to make more money with your data.
This way, instance hosts are free from that incentive and can just focus on making a good website.
I mean I didn’t upvote or downvote porn on Reddit either. It’s all personal information.
On Reddit there were plenty of people with access and the data was sold to advertisers.
Here it’s public, not great but not terrible either. Also makes it easier to battle vote brigading?
It also makes it easier to profile users and weed out anyone who disagrees about literally anything.
Like, you guys need to consider not every admin is a paragon of virtue.
That’s my only concern. I don’t mind my comments to be public. That’s what a public place is, unlike other social media platforms who claim to be but they’re not. It’s, like you mentioned, the upvote/downvote system that I’m worried about and will refrain from using. Because it is public, too, it feels like it lets people read your thoughts. So, I’ll refrain from using it until it’s fixed.
Still unexpected. And that’s the problem.
Comments are obviously public because I can read them. But there is no “upvoted by xx people (and downvoted by xx)” link I can click to see the list of people who interacted this way with the post. It’s only with API calls or similar that I can access the information.
In case of pitchforks: I downvoted this comment because it’s a duplicate, not because it’s bad.
Still unexpected. And that’s the problem.
Comments are obviously public because I can read them. But there is no “upvoted by xx people (and downvoted by xx)” link I can click to see the list of people who interacted this way with the post. It’s only with API calls or similar that I can access the information.
kbin has the ability to see activity including upvotes, boosts, and downvotes from the UI for entries, comments, and microblogs
I was about to call OP out as a liar but I didn’t realise this was specific to kbin.